Partial Hospitalization Program, Randallstown

Sometimes a few treatment sessions each week leave too much time for old patterns, cravings, or mental health symptoms to take over. Our addiction treatment center near Randallstown offers PHP for adults who need more support than IOP or weekly outpatient care but do not require 24-hour residential treatment. At our Towson treatment center, PHP provides 6-8 hours of structured care, five days a week, while allowing appropriate clients to remain connected to everyday life.

Some people come to PHP after detox or residential treatment, while others step up because less intensive treatment has not provided enough support. We offer different PHP options based on how much support you need during treatment and outside clinical hours. Rather than looking at substance use alone, we consider your mental health, relapse risk, previous treatment, home environment, and current stability when determining how PHP should fit into your recovery.

PHP Provides More Daily Structure 

PHP is designed for periods when a few treatment sessions each week leave too much time between appointments to manage cravings, difficult emotions, or patterns that can lead back to substance use. Clients attend treatment five days a week for 6-8 hours a day, creating a consistent therapeutic routine without requiring inpatient care. That additional time allows individual therapy, group counseling, psychiatric care, medication management when needed, and other therapeutic work to happen within the same treatment week.

That level of care can be especially important when you are medically stable but not yet ready for the independence of our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) or outpatient treatment. You may still be going to work, caring for your family, and handling daily responsibilities while finding it increasingly difficult to stay stable without frequent clinical support. We look at how well you are functioning outside treatment, not simply whether you appear to be keeping up with everyday life.  

The amount of time spent in PHP also gives you more opportunities to practice new skills, recognize patterns, and work through setbacks while clinical support is readily available. Instead of waiting several days until the next appointment to discuss what went wrong, you return to treatment throughout the week and can keep building on that work. This consistent rhythm can help prepare you for greater independence as your recovery becomes more stable.

Three PHP Options Match Different Recovery Needs 

The right PHP setting depends partly on what you will return to after treatment each day. If you have a stable, substance-free home and reliable support, commuting to our Towson treatment center may make sense. If you need more accountability outside clinical hours, we offer two options that combine PHP with a structured living environment.

• Commuting PHP: Attend treatment at our Towson center and return home each day when your living environment supports recovery.
• PHP with sober living: Attend PHP while living in one of our structured, substance-free sober living homes, with added accountability outside treatment hours.
• Extended Care with Community Living: Participate in PHP while receiving additional support with life skills, healthy routines, mutual-aid involvement, and gradual reintegration into the community. Transportation between Community Living and the clinical campus is provided as part of this model.

Choosing among these options is a clinical decision, not simply a matter of convenience. We consider whether your home supports recovery, how much accountability you need outside treatment, and how prepared you are to manage everyday responsibilities without returning to old patterns. This allows us to match your living environment with the work you are doing in PHP instead of treating those two parts of recovery separately.

Addiction and Mental Health Are Treated Together 

Substance use can become difficult to change when anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health symptoms are driving the same cycle. In PHP, we do not separate those concerns from addiction treatment or expect you to address them somewhere else. Your dual diagnosis treatment can include individual and group therapy, psychiatric care, and medication management when clinically appropriate, with the same team considering how your mental health and substance use affect one another.

This becomes especially important when it is unclear what is behind a setback. For example, drinking or drug use may increase during periods of depression, while substance use can also worsen mood, anxiety, sleep, and daily functioning. Looking at both sides helps us identify what needs attention rather than focusing only on stopping substance use and leaving the conditions that contribute to it untreated.

The therapy you receive depends on what is contributing to your substance use and what is making recovery difficult to maintain. We may use approaches such as CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, trauma therapy, and psychoeducation based on your symptoms, treatment goals, and progress. This allows the clinical work to address the patterns behind substance use instead of applying the same therapeutic approach to every client.